Inspiration: outlandish floral headpieces

{image via WHORANGE}

I created these fanciful images of women with floral and nature-inspired headpieces ... I call them 'posies' ... Shown below is one of my 'posies' ...

So, I was amused when I saw these creations in real life, however 'costumey', they are fun ... Grandiflora, an Australian florist created these floral head pieces ...

{image via Vogue magazine}

Amira Fritz takes this theme even further ... These pseudo-fashion photographs are in strange contexts, and made even odder with funeral-esque floral arrangements taking the place of the model's head ...

Fritz's photographs remind me of this work I did in collaboration with a friend years ago ... Here is one of the photographs from the photoshoot we did together ...

New portraits in series - a lot more darker than the previous portraits. These took me a little more time than the others, but I am really happy with the way they turned out, the extra effort paid off. Again, I am combining flowers with portraiture, but these are more macabre. I used Kristian Wåhlin's The black flower as my inspiration. I made more variations with this portrait as well, you can see more here.

It feels great to be back in the swing of illustrating - over the past few evenings, I have made portraits inspired by MARUMIYAN's art + design *see May 26 post*

Here are the first two I have worked on. You can see more colour variations here. More to come...